If the high contrast setting is turned on you won't see the fill colour.
There's information in the following MSKB article:

Changes to the fill color and the fill pattern are not displayed in
Office programs
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320531


Marco wrote:
Fill color doesn't work although font color does. Any advice to correct?
Thanks


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